Listen how they say your name. If they can't say that right, there's no way they're going to know how to treat you proper, neither.

Libraries are where it all begins.

If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It’s the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.

I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.

If I begin writing a poem that means I'm intrigued in some way by whatever it's about and that if I'm not trying to find something new and pushing the envelope in the poem I can't expect my reader to be particularly excited about it either.

It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.